A mouth-watering combination of Wensleydale cheese and ales is being laid on at a North Shields pub during a mini-festival this October.

The Oddfellows pub, in Albion Road, North Shields , is hosting a Beer and Cheese Festival which will showcase the delicacy made famous by TV's Wallace and Gromit.

Cheese-loving Wallace's favourite Wensleydale will have a starring role at the October 11-14 festival given that it comes from the area which is now home to the pub's owner Graeme Oswald.

Alongside the award-winning cheese from the famous creamery in Hawes, the event will include beers from every brewery in the dale.

Customers can expect award-winners from the range of cask ales too, with six extra beers being available on gravity and three on tap, alongside a selection of bottled beers.

Wensleydale will feature on the festival menu (Image: Daily Mirror)

The pub's manager Mark Hamill, said “We are aiming to keep beers at a very competitive price during the festival.

"We have beers lined up from The Yorkshire Dales and Wensleydale micro breweries as well as the relative big boys, Theakston and Black Sheep from down dale, amongst others.

“We hope to make mini festivals a bi-monthly event but this depends on the success of this inaugural festival so I would urge all beer lovers to pop in and try a couple of jars.”

And owner Graeme added: "This is the first time that we have married a food offering with beer through a festival and to choose a fantastic range of Wallace and Grommit’s favourite cheese from Wensleydale to go with an equally impressive range of beers from the same neck of the woods seemed an easy choice.”

Oddfellows, 7 Albion Road, North Shields

He added: “What could be finer than crumbly Wensleydale cheeses washed down with some quality cask ales that you may not have come across before?”

Adding to the mix will be entertainment throughout the festival, incorporating the pub’s usual Thursday night quiz and a 'Claire and Den' acoustic music night on the Saturday.

The festival will open at 7pm on Thursday, October 11 and any beer left by Sunday will be sold off at the close of the festival that evening.